Thomas Roderick Dew

Thomas Roderick Dew (1802-1846) was President of the College of William & Mary from 1836 to 1846 and an American pro-slavery activist.

Biography
Thomas Roderick Dew was born in King and Queen County, Virginia in 1802, and he graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1820. He served as a professor from 1827 to 1836 and as President from 1836 to 1846, and, in the months following Nat Turner's slave rebellion, he published a vigorous defense of slavery which became the base for most Southern proslavery arguments. He died of bronchitis in 1846.